[PATCH v2 2/4] irqchip: add LPC32xx interrupt controller driver
Marc Zyngier
marc.zyngier at arm.com
Tue May 3 01:34:03 PDT 2016
On 28/04/16 23:15, Vladimir Zapolskiy wrote:
> On 26.04.2016 16:41, Sylvain Lemieux wrote:
>> Hi Vladimir,
>>
>> On Mon, 2016-04-25 at 04:00 +0300, Vladimir Zapolskiy wrote:
>>> The change adds improved support of NXP LPC32xx MIC, SIC1 and SIC2
>>> interrupt controllers.
>>>
>>> This is a list of new features in comparison to the legacy driver:
>>> * irq types are taken from device tree settings, no more need to
>>> hardcode them,
>>> * old driver is based on irq_domain_add_legacy, which causes problems
>>> with handling MIC hardware interrupt 0 produced by SIC1,
>>> * there is one driver for MIC, SIC1 and SIC2, no more need to handle
>>> them separately, e.g. have two separate handlers for SIC1 and SIC2,
>>> * the driver does not have any dependencies on hardcoded register
>>> offsets,
>>> * the driver is much simpler for maintenance,
>>> * SPARSE_IRQS option is supported.
>>>
>>> Legacy LPC32xx interrupt controller driver was broken since commit
>>> 76ba59f8366f ("genirq: Add irq_domain-aware core IRQ handler"), which
>>> requires a private interrupt handler, otherwise any SIC1 generated
>>> interrupt (mapped to MIC hwirq 0) breaks the kernel with the message
>>> "unexpected IRQ trap at vector 00".
>>>
>>> The change disables compilation of a legacy driver found at
>>> arch/arm/mach-lpc32xx/irq.c, the file will be removed in a separate
>>> commit.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vz at mleia.com>
>>> ---
>>> Changes from v1 to v2:
>>> * added chained_irq_{enter,exit} for SIC chained handler,
>>> * use {writel,readl}_relaxed flavour of io access functions,
>>> * changed anchor data type to access iomem from struct irq_domain
>>> to private struct lpc32xx_irq_chip,
>>> * do not read irq status register twice on every irq event,
>>> * resource deallocation fixes on error path of irqchip driver init,
>>> * removed handling of "interrupt-controller-name" property, name
>>> is constructed from mic/sic type and controller's physical address,
>>> * minor improvements (renames, __ffs instead of ffs, etc.)
>>>
>>> Many kudos to Marc for review of v1.
>>>
>>> arch/arm/Kconfig | 2 +
>>> arch/arm/mach-lpc32xx/phy3250.c | 1 -
>>> drivers/irqchip/Makefile | 1 +
>>> drivers/irqchip/irq-lpc32xx.c | 238 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>> 4 files changed, 241 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>> create mode 100644 drivers/irqchip/irq-lpc32xx.c
>>>
>> I tested the driver on a custom LPC3250 board; I was having at
>> least 1 interrupt generated from each source (MIC/SIC1/SIC2).
>>
>> Tested-by: Sylvain Lemieux <slemieux.tyco at gmail.com>
>>
>
> Thomas, Marc, Jason, Russell,
>
> in your opinion would it be still possible to accept this change v2 2/4 for v4.7?
I'll queue them.
Thanks,
M.
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